Butte semi-weekly miner., 1887-01-15
RAILROAD NOTES.

- one few short months will determine.
u RAILROAD NOTES.
Sayings and Doings rs Gathered by Gu
Reporter Among the Railroaders.
So far. Manager Dawson says, the Nor
tana Union has no need OF q snow plow.
George Cross has resigned as clerk t,
Master Mechanic Peavy, and has accepte
q position as fireman.
Mr.. NJ. A. Hotehkiss has been appointe,
night operator at South Butte. and will en-
ter on hisduties tonight.
Engineer Llewllyn, who was absent al
last summer East, has returned, and i
now daily running on the hill.
Charlie Weisel, who visited his home il
Baltimore, Nd, has returned aud will com
mence at the lathe again Monday.
Master Mechanic Peavy has been kept
busy of late. At present he has over 1O(
men employed in the shops and yards.
| John Patterson, the efficient carpenter
at the shops, it is whispered, will soon lead
to the altar charming young lady who
resides in Butte.
VIM. Campbell, who was formerly with
the Engineer Corps on the Utah & North.
ern, has been appointed clerk to Master
Mechanic Peavy.
The passenger train from the south was
several hours late yesterday, owing to the
wrecking Of a freight train the night before
near Camas, Idaho.
Complaint is heard along the road that
there is getting to be scarcity Of coal
along the line. It is said that it is OWING to
the snow blockades.
E. ID. Leclaire, who has so ably filled a
clerkship chair at the freight office in South
Butte, has resigned and accepted a similar
position with Bennett Bros.
John J. Haggerty has had occasion to
visit Deer Lodge several times on railroad
business. The boys say that there must
be some other attraction there.
The Montana Union has lately received
seventy flats from the Northern Pacific,
which are being altered SO as to carry cord
wood for the use of the slnelters.
Every station agent on the Utah e. North
ern railroad is compelled to make daily
weather reports to the train dispatcher at
Pocatello, and ofuener if it is storming.
Joe McNeal. who was "hustling" in the
Montana Union yards, has been set up, so
that now he handles the throttle valve
over one OF the engines on the Utah &
Northern.
Manager Dawson yesterday signed con-
tract with Owsley & McQueeney to fill the
ice house at the depot with about 400 tons
of ice which is to be hauled from the pond
ut the Bell smelter.
Spring Hill shops will in the spring be
enlarged, as it is expected that all repair
ing to engines and cars between Butte and
Pocatello will be done there by the Utah
& Northern Company.
j. NJ. Jones, who used to run from
Garrison to Deer Lodge, and return,
has been appointed postal clerk. Thanks
to Delegate Toole. who recommended him
TO the Postofficc Department.
The Three Deuces. engine No. 222, left |
asst night for Garrison to be returned to |
The Northern Pacific, because, the boys
'ay, they could not make steam with her |
md could hardly pull five empties up the
:anyon.
The snow pillow which is attached to
engine No. 81 and run by Engineer George
Palmer, has of late been making regular
rips between SILVER Bow Junction and
spring Hill for the purpose of keeping the
Dad open.
The Montana Union has thirteen stan
ard gauge engines. which are kept busy on
he road, three OF which are EN- ployed on
he hill by day, and two at night, to bring
ne ore down from the Anaconda mine and
AXE up supplies.
Some OF the railroad boys at the shop
ave an immense razor, five feet
height, which they propose to present
o the Knights OF Razor Club at their next ,
"a Doc Mo h. i,
estern hotel the coming week.
Cashier Donahoe states that the demand ,
'r railroad talent among the business
eople has assumed such proportions that ,
order to keep sufficient force in the :
eight office in future, emrloyes will be I
ompelled to sign an iron clad contract in I
ddition to taking the regular Chinese oath.
The big Mogul" will be here to-day and
i'll at once he put to work on the run be-
Veen Butte and Anaconda. It is said a
lat his royal highness is the biggest engine r
the world. 1t was used up to few DAYS s
20 on the Cascade Division of the North v
n Pacific, and is leased to the Montana
Mon by the Northern Pacific. a
J. T. Robinson, wife and baby arrived in n
'uth Butte yesterday and have taken up e
eir residence with Master Mechanic n
eavy. Mr.. Robinson has accepted DO. t
hon in the freight department. OF the Mon.
ma Union at South Butte. The gentle O
an was formerly connected with the b
lditor' s department OF the Union Pacific C
Omaha. i,
The conductors and brakemen of the j.
ontana Union and Utah Northern say
at the increase OF wages OF the train men y
tho Forthern Pacific does not come up "
what they are paid. They say that the B
'ight conductors on the above roads a
axe from 500 to $3.50 per month, and Il
e brakemen get S2.17 per day, and over tt
ne, which runs them from $40 to $75
r month. +,
Some fine coal fields we're discovered by o
lperintendent Tibbey, of the Parrot, near d
edicine Lodge and some twenty miles 81
om Red Rock Station on the Utah & n
orthern. 1t is understood that the n
hon Pacific will build branch there in
e spring, for the purpose OF supplying IL
Q motive power with fuel. 1t is said that al
al will then be delivered in Butte for W
'out IS per ton to private consumers. W